Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Laughter

If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.